Re: Tiling features in Mutter

[Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:11:55PM +1100, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
>> I've started to work on these features in gnome-shell itself (using
>> javascript). but haven't had much time for it. I'm not convinced doing it in
>> the shell is a great idea, as a lot of the functionality is not yet exposed
>> to javscript-land. So I'll definitely check out your code when I get a
>> moment, and we can hopefully work together.
>
> No idea if feasible, but maybe work on exposing it in javascript, so the
> tiling features can live in an extension? Then everyone wanting to use
> tiling could have it easily (no need to compile / differ from what is in
> the distro)

That's true - it should be a lot easier to distribute as a javascript
extension. Oliver, have you asked the mutter developers whether they'd
be open to merging tiling features? Can anyone on this list answer
that?